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by Sridhar Ayengar :: Rate this Message:

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Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Almost no living programers today would even know how to write code for
> a machine that was not based on 8/16/32/64-bit 2's compliment CPUs and
> not too many more have any idea how to deal with a machine that is not
> Intel based or running a video console.

Anyone who writes anything reasonably low-level on mainframes (myself
included) know that stuff.

There's also the argument that someone who makes those sorts of
assumptions aren't really programmers.

Copro-grammers, maybe?

Peace...  Sridhar
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